Al Goldstein

When the Great Recession struck in 2008, the Millennial Generation was among the hardest hit. Caught in a plummeting economy characterized by enormous job cuts and limited new hiring, these underpaid and unemployed new-to-the-workforce folks didn’t have the economic wherewithal to move out on their own as previous generations did.

The City of Chicago enacted the Wireless Internet Zones initiative to bring free Wi-Fi to new areas of the city, but many of those hotspots are pinpointed downtown, at locations such as parks or the beach.